Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many visas were granted to associated dependants of care workers who were under the age of 18 in the year ending September 2023.

The Home Office does not publish the information on the number of associate dependents for care worker applications granted who were under the age of 18 in the year ending September 2023, as the Home Office does not publish breakdowns by occupation and dependents are not categorised by age within the data.

The Home Office publishes data on visas in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of dependents for Health and Care applications granted, are published in table Vis_D02 of the Entry clearance visas applications and outcomes detailed dataset.

Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates up to, and including, 2023 Q3 (July to September).

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.